The classical touches in the Beatles canon are all over their work, and only increased and improved with time. A culmination can be seen,...

It’s one of the oldest clichés in music that the best artists steal from other artists. It should be a comfort to know that the great...

Earlier, we excoriated the Beatles for their misogynistic missteps. Below, we praise them for their emergent feminism. To fully...

In recent months, I’ve started every day with the same ritual: I roll out of bed, fix a cup of coffee, and play Wordle. I was, I think, a...

The washing machine was invented by a man. Nah! you surely scoff, if men had any say in it, clothes wouldn’t get washed at all! Or,...

Fans of a certain age will remember the early Seventies, a singular era when psychedelia had let album-oriented rock into our bedrooms,...

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The little bell above the shop door dingled as Sophie McDonald, age twenty-two, rushed in and flew across the floor, pushing past her...

I The horizon was pink and gray and laced with strands of bright silver lightning. The near-full moon had begun glaring down through a...

Alice Cooper is a fraud. The granddaddy of shock rock, who peaked somewhere around the election of Jimmy Carter, is a prominent if not...

There are some elements of rock that have simply gotten stronger and stronger over time, immune to the dilutions of fashion and...

She carefully tied her shoes with well-crafted loops (as always), tucking the shopping list (which was almost always the same) into the...

Young Jessie Petrie scooted herself up in her bed with effort, cautious of the IV in her left arm, rising up enough to survey her entire...

Sunlight flared and the windshield dimmed, and the Director glanced to his left as the transport dropped past his own cruiser, tossing...

Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist at Stanford University, reported to the Wall Street Journal that we are facing a new and dangerous form of...

Kai-Fu Lee believes that humankind has risen to a whole new level of war-waging. In his new book 2041: Ten Visions of Our Future, Lee...

Much has been made of the fact that Star Trek is, underneath the hull, a humanist manifesto. This derives from creator Gene Roddenberry’s...

As I write this, it is the day after Apple TV’s new adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation epic – stories of the far future, when...

No religious clap-trap, no holy book, no ideology, no textbook, not even any Beatles song can match the clarity and honesty and reality...

The sociologist Tony Campolo (who is also a Baptist Evangelical minister) has made a side career of speaking to multinational...